I must. . . warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.
Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.
Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.
What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
Art = a mad search for individualism.
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.
I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.